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Our Lady’s Electronic Newsletter:
February 2009

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Great News!
Vatican Lifts Society of Saint Pius X Excommunication

On January 26, 2009 it was announced in a decree mandated by Benedict XVI
that the excommunication of the bishops consecrated by His Grace Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre on June 30, 1988, declared in a decree dated July 1, 1988 by
the Congregation for Bishops, has been withdrawn. Read "Pope
Repeals Excommunications of Society of St. Pius X Bishops" now.

2008: The Year Nothing Happened

The year just ended must surely go down in history as a year full of shocking
and disheartening news, a year that we are glad to see ended.

Wars raged in the Middle East, which the Bible tells us will be the site of
the Armageddon. The economies of every major country in the world were rocked
by credit and banking crises, and we are now officially in a recession which
could deepen into a depression not seen since the Dirty Thirties.

And — once again this year — millions of lives have been lost
and apparently millions of souls have gone to hell because the Pope and Catholic
bishops still have not obeyed the command of Our Lady of Fatima to consecrate
Russia to Her Immaculate Heart. And because not enough priests and lay persons
are praying and sacrificing for this intention.

Where has the Church been in all this? You will search in vain through the
media archives for the past year to find even one significant news story featuring
a successful intervention by the Vatican to avert the economic, political and
moral collapse with which the entire world is faced. And yet it could turn the
whole crisis around — by simply fulfilling the Fatima request for the
Consecration of Russia.

The Pope — once thought rightly so by all Catholics to be the most powerful
man on earth — has been unable to say or do almost anything to make the
world a better place. It would seem no one listens to the Holy Father any more.
The world is rushing headlong to the brink of destruction, including the annihilation
of nations of which Our Lady of Fatima warned, and the Pope still does not do
the one simple thing which will save the Church and humanity.

What is Pope Benedict XVI thinking? What is his real agenda? Click
hereto listen to a 30-minute interview
with John Vennari on "The Oath Against Modernism vs. the Hermeneutic
of Continuity". (You will need to be able to download and play MP3 files
to hear this.)

The October Synod: a Damp Squib

Readers may not be aware that we are a little more than half-way through
the Pauline Year of 2008-9. Plans for this year of tribute to St. Paul were
announced with great fanfare a year ago. It was to be "ecumenical and full of
cultural events". (What? No religious events?) The "celebration" was to focus
on "rediscovering the person of St. Paul and his teachings, improving unity
amongst Christians and pilgrimages to places associated with his life."

Somewhere along the line the Vatican decided this Pauline year would be an
opportune time to get some of the leading Cardinals and bishops together in
Rome for a synod. Then they had to come up with an agenda, something for the
bishops to do or at least discuss. There was speculation that the Pope might,
at last, put the Message of Fatima (hopefully including the vital part of the
Third Secret which has not yet been released) before the assemblage, and perhaps
even do the Consecration of Russia as the Blessed Virgin asked.

But no. The synod's theme was to be "The Word of God in the life and mission
of the Church". — Was it not just a glorified Bible study? Because, of
course, the synod was "ecumenical", with not only Protestants but also Muslim
and Jewish scholars participating since they all represent "religions of the
book". This conveniently ignores the fact that the books which are central to
Islam, Judaism and the Protestant sects are not the book — the Holy Bible — which
was compiled, authenticated and preserved by the Catholic Church over the centuries.

Anyway, the learned theologians and scholars got together and talked, and
what happened? The mountain labored mightily and brought forth a mouse! The
delegates submitted to the Holy Father 55 "final proposals". It is expected — or
hoped — that the Pope will incorporate them into a "post-synodal exhortation" which
he will promulgate sometime this year...or maybe later.

At the end of the synod, a message was addressed to the "people of God" (let
no one feel excluded or discriminated against!) which was forgotten almost before
the ink was dry on the paper. The main part of the message was written by Archbishop
Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture (sic). Unfortunately,
its excessive length and turgid style prevented it from being read, let alone
reflected on by any but a few bishops, priests, and faithful.

However, one significant event took place in Rome in the last week
of October. The Fatima Center, led by Father Nicholas Gruner, mounted "Target:
Rome", an intensive media campaign to bring the urgent Message
of Our Lady of Fatima to the gates of the Vatican. Follow the links
on The
Fatima Network's Target: Rome page for details.

The Fatima Center has just released issueNo. 90
of The Fatima Crusader — a special report on Target: Rome,
including news of a blessing by one of the most senior prelates of the Church.
To get your copy, click
on this link or e-mail info@fatima.org.

Independent, Secular Study DocumentsMassive Exodus from the Catholic Church

2008 was a bad year for the Roman Catholic Church in the USA too. The past
summer brought disturbing news in a study from the Pew Forum on Religion and
Public Life. Its survey of the beliefs and practices of US Catholics found that fully
one-third of "cradle Catholics" were so disgusted by what has happened in
the Church since Vatican II — particularly the Novus Ordo Mass — that
they have "voted with their feet". That is, they have walked out of the Church
and no longer practice the Catholic Faith.

Of course that doesn't mean they can no longer call themselves Catholics.
Once you are baptized Catholic, you remain Catholic. But there are other words
and terms that could be applied to those who have turned their back on the Faith
— words like "lapsed" and "apostate".

48% attend the Novus Ordo service at most only "a few times a year
"
48% favor legalizing abortion
58% favor accepting homosexuality, sodomy, and "gay marriage"
79% said that Protestantism, Judaism, and Mohammedanism are "just as good
as Catholicism"
84% believe that the Catholic Church is not the true means of salvation.

A famous scene from the movie Network portrays newscaster Howard
Beale, fed up with institutional crime and corruption, throwing open a window
and crying out to the world:

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this
any more.... Things have got to change. But first, you've...got to say, I'm
as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this any more!"

This could well be the anguished cry of traditional Catholics who believe
that statistics like those in the Pew survey prove that, even amongst those
who call themselves Catholics, the Church has lost its moral authority and,
more broadly, lost its way. Our Church has been dragged down and our Faith has
been dragged down. How much longer will we take it?!

It is high time that we get up on our hind feet and demand a return to the
Faith of our fathers. Only Our Lady can help us! Let us work and pray harder
than ever before for the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart, so that the whole
Church may once again embrace the True Faith and take up its proper position
in our hearts, our minds, and our world.

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Latest Fatima Perspectives by
Christopher Ferrara

Saint
Stalin? - A new manual issued to the country's history
teachers says Stalin acted rationally. It is proposed that the Russian Orthodox
Church declare him a saint.

Back
in the U.S.S.R. - The enlightened ones stopped
laughing when their enlightened opinion on the Consecration of Russia was
exposed as utterly and disastrously wrong.

Keeping
the Catholics Down by denying the infallible teaching of the
Catholic Church that civil authority is subject to spiritual authority. Remember
we must: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and render to
God the things that are God's."

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